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| Taking notes during a brief between-blizzard break in Chile. |
WRITING: I'm the author of Darwin Slept Here (February 2009, Overlook Press), a history and adventure-travel biography of Charles Darwin's four years in South America. My current book project, scheduled to be published by Overlook in 2013, is an investigation into the curious inner lives of sports fans -- in other words, a desperate attempt to understand why I throw a temper tantrum every April over the sporting failures of a bunch of professional hockey players. I've freelanced for a number of magazines and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Sierra, California, Seed, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Canoe & Kayak, and contributed a short chapter to Catherine Price's 101 Places Not to See Before You Die (June 2010, Harper Paperbacks). I've also worked as a teacher and editor with reporters for the hyperlocal news sites Oakland North and Richmond Confidential, at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
This is some of my published work:
- Unearthing California (California Magazine, Spring 2011)
Berkeley researchers are uncovering how the land looked when the Spaniards stumbled upon it.
Online - The Fog Is Rising -- Or Is It? (Terrain, Spring 2010)
Fog sustains Northern California's plants, animals, and people. What will happen as climate change turns up the heat?
Online - Mapping the Bay's hidden past (San Francisco Chronicle, March 2009)
Ecologist Robin Grossinger finds a history full of suprises.
Online - Bagging the Trophy (Los Angeles Times Magazine, May 2005)
With another world elk-calling championship in the cross hairs, Greg Hubbell Sr. watches his son's prey almost slip away.
Plain Text - Not Rushing Anymore (California Magazine, Fall 2009)
On the sidelines with Russell White.
Online - For All the Fish, So Long? (Terrain Magazine, Summer 2009)
Are ocean conditions rolling backward 550 million years to the Cambrian Era, when invertebrates ruled the warm seas and bony fishes hadn't been invented yet?
Online - Darwin Mania! (Columbia Journalism Review, February 2009)
Journalists devote reams to his birthday. Does he deserve it?
Online - Darwin Slept Here Photo Essay (Seed Online, February 2009)
A photo essay commemorating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday.
Online - Mercury Rising (Terrain Magazine, March 2009)
Mercury causes huge health problems high in the food chain -- but where does it come from?
Online - Water Dance (California Magazine, September 2007)
Cal swimming coach Teri McKeever favors balance and body movement over traditional long distance training.
Plain Text - Dive Deep for this Ab Workout (Los Angeles Times Outdoors, June 2005)
In the turbulent waters off Salt Point State Park, abalone, which look like dinner plates glued to a rock, just might be dinner.
Plain Text | PDF - Invasion of the Bay Snatchers (East Bay Express, June 2007)
Local scientists battle aquatic invaders that quash biodiversity and threaten state coffers.
Plain Text | Online - Proven Human (Canoe & Kayak, January 2006)
The old guard of the Tsunami Rangers begin their bittersweet yet inevitable transition from tempting death to accepting fate.
Plain Text - If You Hang With the Birds, You Can't Go Cheap (Oakland Tribune, December 2003)
Hold onto your stomach -- and your wallet.
Plain Text - NHL Veteran Keeps Love for Skating (Oakland Tribune, November 2003)
87-year-old former Canadiens player finds time to get on the ice in Dublin.
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